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Sep 16, 2013 · Lang and von Harbou divorced in 1933. With the rise of Nazism, Lang left Germany, but von Harbou stayed and continued to work under the Nazis. In fact prominent Nazis expressed admiration for Metropolis — by some accounts, it was Hitler’s favourite film. One postwar analysis of the movie suggests that it summed up the psychology of the ...
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm.
- 10 January 1927
- Gottfried Huppertz
- 5.3 million ℛ︁ℳ︁ (estimated) (equivalent to €21 million 2021)
- Erich Pommer
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Feb 12, 2016 · After Lang left Germany, he and von Harbou never spoke again. Once they’d severed their creative bond, they didn’t seem to be able to exist in each others’ lives, even in the periphery. Lang went to France and then to America, where he continued to pursue his idiosyncratic filmmaking.
Jun 27, 2019 · Although flirting with Lang and von Harbou’s romantic lost-in-space ending, it concludes on a more positive note.
Metropolis, German silent film, released in 1927, featuring director Fritz Lang ’s vision of a grim futuristic society and containing some of the most impressive images in film history. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) The great future city of Metropolis in the film is inhabited by two distinct classes: the ...
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Dec 19, 2017 · Fritz Lang’s Work Has Been Accused of Harboring a Pro-Nazi Message. But Does It? Fritz Lang, the son of a Jewish woman, a half-breed by Nazi standards, was naturally petrified when he was...
August Scherl. Publication date. 1925. Published in English. 1927. Pages. 273. Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by the German writer Thea von Harbou. The novel was based on the screenplay for Fritz Lang 's 1927 film Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
